Federico Caporal
Objectives
Infantellina-Contemporary
Photographer Federico Caporal
Professional photographer in photo-documentation and advertising.
Federico Caporal deals with photography of landscapes since 2002, investigating the relationship between people and places in geometric spaces.
Since 2006, his study is focused on the development of the entire photographic internet-techniques , producing dynamic images that indeed improve the usability of web-sites: he is committed to online tool development and other services including visual web development.
His studio is also home to educational and cultural activities related to photography and experimentation in the darkroom.
Professional Photographers Association TauVisual. Card No: 6768
ACTIVITIES:
2006-2008 Milan
Pinholeday
A training course in preparation for the day of the WORLD pinhole. 6 meetings and debates on technology.
2006-2008 Verona
Gardaland, the park photographers.
Two days devoted to landscape photography. Gardaland park provides facilities to all members of the association. The training course focuses on three classes in the field. The exercises are devoted to different formats of cameras: SLR, medium format view camera.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
1999 Verona Area Giovanni Giorgi
Travel to Sarajevo
6 prints 20X30 black and white on baryta-paper.
2000 Verona Town Hall
Travel to Sarajevo
6 prints 20X30 black and white on baryta-paper.
2002 C.s.o. Leoncavallo Milan
International Happening Underground 8
Penguins Pao
5 colour prints on 30X40 frame of reinforced concrete.
2002 Ex.Mercato 24 Bologna
Penguins Pao
5 colour prints on 30X40 frame of reinforced concrete.
Milan Area, 2002 Bauer
Triple Identity: R.G.B. and homage to Georges Seurat
3 colour prints 30X40
Turin 2003 Galleria Octopus
Penguins Pao
12 colour prints 20X30
2003 Taz Moviment Milan
6-digit hexadecimal
1 light box 20x30, 6 plates acrylic-glass
2003 C.S.O. Globetrotter Naples
Penguins Pao
12 colour prints 20X30
2003 C.S.O. Leoncavallo Milan
International Happening Underground 9
Pictures of Street Art
6 colour prints 20X30
2004 Taz Moviment Milan
Pinhole 360 °
1 plate 120
Space Art Expo 2004 Milan
Pinhole 360 °
1 light box 12x80
2005 No art gallery, quev Milan
Pictures of Street Art
6 colour prints 20X30
2006 Galleria Civica di Palermo Bagheria
The passion in shot
7 colour prints 50X70
2007 Gallery "Campazzo" Modena
Pinhole photography
2 slow-photos 20X30
Rotonda della Besana Milan 2008
Pinhole Day 2008
Coletti tank - 2 colour prints 20X30
Form 2009 Area - Meeting Room Milan
Pinhole Day 2009
Coletti tank and pinhole presentation rooms
2009 Museum Labyrinth - ArtBox Milan
Homage to Georges Seurat - 4 light-boxes 100X70
Education
1993-1998 I.P.S.I.A. G. Giorgi Verona
Technical service for the telecommunications industry.
Programmer in C + +.
Computer operator for numerical controls
2000-2001 C.F.P. Milan R. Bauer
Editing and visual culture.
History of photography.
Applied technologies of optical cameras.
Practical course for using the optical bench and laboratory printing - BN and colour. Pre-press colour offset and Caliban.
Pinhole BETA CAMERA
Mastering Technology means
not be frightened by flowcharts
it means understanding the rhythm of daily reactions
and the transparency of geometric spaces
it means breaking through the surface
and engage into the beauty of numbers and classes
and so "THECNE" evolves into its own order of harmonies
Federico Caporal
TRIBUTE TO Georges Seurat
Georges Seurat made his famous paintings of landscapes right their, sketching some essential traits to complete the work later inside the studio, trying to apply the laws of his paintings to visual perception. He divided them into small patches and tones of pure colors and combined them to give a scientific basis to the visual process of painting. His style was called “Pontillisme” precisely because the technique used provided this juxtaposition of small dots of primary colors in order to reconstruct the effect of light on objects.
Federico Caporal, created the project "Homage to Seurat” suggesting that the French painter has in some way anticipated the modern view of the image formed by pixels which is characteristic for digital photography, in which the colors are encoded in strings of 6 digits corresponding to each point on the figure itself.
Caporal presents a series of three light boxes as views of urban spaces, building each image with three different layers. Each level has a clue and its proper meaning.
The overall image is created with data from this stratification, thus understanding the particularity of different semantic levels.
On the basic level the description of reality as such is represented, i.e. the display space taken in its physical presence. On a second more specific level we can trace some of the colors that make up the base image, which is highlighted by a more proper retinal impression given by some parts of the photograph. And on third and final level (the surface) the alphanumeric values are assigned to these colors, during the process of digitizing the image.
The work is described as consisting of different perspectives, in a game of cross-references between material and immaterial where the physical and virtual spaces are mixed into a picture. This work, extremely topical, is trying to build a bridge between past and present, connecting the Seurat painting technique to new technologies, and telling the landscape with a hybrid language that is not only directed by sensory perception, but that includes a vocabulary of machine language.
Tiziana Gemin
machine language transforms colors in strings of 6 digits and three color schemes
the access code is completed
perfect mechanisms
in the name of calculations that should be logical
numerical passion put into algebra whose equations not only last for a few seconds
numerical identity
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